'Powerhouse'Annotated

Eudora Welty wrote after ‘Powerhouse’ after she attended a concert that Fats Waller gave in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1940. Her story captures both Waller’s brilliance and the mindset of the white Mississippi audience that tries to contain him within its own narrow bounds. ‘Powerhouse’ Annotated makes legible the multimedia experience that Welty devised for her readers.